... carefully working his bare feet into the dust. One of the novel`s most important symbols, the turtle, is presented in the first intercalary chapter. The turtle is symbolic and its adventures prophetic allegory. The life force which drives the turtle, drives the Joads, and in the same direction - southwest. As the turtle picks up seeds in its shell and drops them on the other side of the road, so the Joads pick up life and take ... it across the country to California. As the turtle survives the truck`s attempt to smash it on the highway, so the Joads endure the ... ...

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... to discourage hitchhikers, he gives Tom a lift to the road where his family, the Joads, lives. While walking down the road, Tom meets up with Jim Casy, the preacher that baptized him. They exchange stories; Tom explains that he went to jail for killing a man with a shovel in self-defense while Jim elaborates on why he gave up on preaching, being sexually immoral with young girls. When they ... strife. Another smaller theme would have to be, no matter what, your family will always be there for you. During the whole story things went wrong, but the whole time they took heart in knowing th...

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... that he is going to live off the land like Muley. He continues to argue until the family sneaks sleeping medicine into his coffee. When Grandpa Joad falls asleep, they carry him into the truck and start the journey to California. In this chapter, the Joad's have travelled for a day and decided to camp on the side of the road when they meet the Wilson's, whose car has broke down. Because ... Granpa is really sick, the Wilson's offer their tent to him so he would be able to rest. Not ... long afterwards, he dies of a stroke. They hold a quick funeral and bury him even though it is agains...

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... their first winter in California. The novel is basically divided into three sections: their time in Oklahoma, their journey to a "better" life in California, and their time while in California. It also contains "inter-chapters" that don't focus mostly on the Joads, and rather the situation at hand for all "Okies" on their way to California. The opening chapter describes the lives of farm owners dealing with ... the drought in Oklahoma along with a dust storm. "Men stood by their fences and looked at ... filled with migrants, or in other words, "a path of people in flight (128)." This des...

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... it would have given them the necessary time to put in place the technology needed to rebuild/ retrofit or re-power existing units. The deferment was abandoned when the decision to take immediate action was made by the EPA. In spring of 2003 diesel powered engines were regulated. October 2, 2003 was the last date to make changes to the Chapter 4 sec. 42300 of the Health and Safety code that ... exempts any equipment used in agricultural operations to be made. ENVIRONMENTAL and HEALTH IMPACT In 1998 when the proposed regulation came forward it was estimated that by 2010 NOx emissions woul...

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